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The Glengarry News
Volume 124, No. 23
Alexandria, Ontario - Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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COLOUR RUN: Colours were flying at Gray’s Creek Conservation Area Saturday morning during the Upper Canada District School
Board’s Champions for Kids fundraising colour run. Participants could run either a one-kilometre or five-kilometre course, knowing that
they would be regularly pelted with coloured powder as they ran the circuit. Champions for Kids enables students to participate in
sports and helps families in need of assistance.
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BY ANGELA BROWN
News Staff
Fire struck two families in the region last
week, destroying a home in North
Lancaster and severely damaging a Glen
Robertson residence.
A faulty extension cord is being blamed
for a fire that destroyed a home in North
Lancaster Friday afternoon. Nobody was
injured in the blaze that was caused by an
extension cord that was connected to a
sump pump in the basement of the house,
located on Concession 6, near Second Line
Road. South Glengarry Fire Chief Vic
Leroux related no one was home at the
time of the fire. A family had been renting
the property and was in the midst of moving. Firefighters were notified at about 3:15
p.m. About 35 firefighters from North
Lancaster, Williamstown, Lancaster and
Martintown spent about an hour trying to
extinguish the flames. The loss of the structure is between $175,000 and to $200,000.
Mr. Leroux advises people not to connect
extension cords to their sump pumps. “It’s
an unsafe practice,” he reiterated.
What you think
of Main Street
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FLANCERS MODERN
Life’s brighter
under the sun
Yves Robert, EPC
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THEIR CUP OF TEA: Bev Runions, Rev. Lois Gaudet and Alison Murray dressed in
period garb (1890s-1900s) for the Downton Abbey tea at Martintown’s Grand Hotel on
Saturday afternoon. The event, which doubled as a fundraiser for St. Andrew’s United
Church, drew its inspiration from the popular British television series about an aristocratic family and their servants at around the turn of the 20th century. The tea was a
very popular event as it sold out quickly. Most of the people showed up were decked
out in clothing that reflected the theme.
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BY ANGELA BROWN
News Staff
Some people would like Alexandria’s Main
Street to have more flowers and trees, while
others want to see more new businesses.
Those are some of the comments made by
about 100 respondents who completed
North Glengarry’s survey at the Alexandria
and District Chamber of Commerce Trade
Show.
The questions were, “What do you love
about Main Street?” and “How can you reimagine Main Street?”
About 15 per cent of respondents said they
like the historical flavour of the area and
diversity of the old buildings. Another 15 per
cent said they liked that there were shops,
businesses and restaurants on Main Street.
Fourteen per cent of respondents appreciated the specialty shops. In comparison, only
one per cent of respondents said they appreciated that Mill Pond could be viewed from
Main Street.
Three per cent liked the free parking.
Three per cent appreciated Mill Square and
especially when there is a fountain at the
location. Seven per cent love the murals.
Four per cent said there is “not much to
love,” however.
The survey “was an opportunity to take
the pulse of the community,” said municipal
economic development officer Kerri-Lynn
Strotmann. “It was an informal way of gathering information and perceptions from a
cross-section of the population.”
“What pleased me is that they found the
history of their community and the heritage
very important. I think that’s wonderful,”
said Ms. Strotmann.
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She also said she’d “never really won anything drastic” before, apart from $1,000 in a
draw some time ago, a pair of matching
wristwatches that she and her late husband,
John, won “many, many, many years ago,”
and an electric kettle a few years ago which
she gave to her granddaughter.
Canadian Cancer Society officials told Mrs.
MacLeod that it would be a couple of weeks
before she receives her million dollars –
which she won after purchasing a $10 ticket
- and that she’ll likely be able to pick it up at
the Cancer Society’s Cornwall office.
“I’ve been buying a Canadian Cancer
Society, a Heart and Stroke and a CHEO lottery ticket for a long time, and it paid off, and
it’s for a good cause,” she said.
While Mrs. MacLeod captured the most
lucrative of the five grand prizes, the other
four grand prize winners also fared quite
well.
Mark Wagler, of St. Charles, won $100,000;
Karen Monette, of Ottawa, received two 2015
Cadillacs; Sherrie Dale, of Georgetown, took
home a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
and $10,000; and Gerald Withers, of Val
Caron, was given the keys to a 2015 Porsche
Macan as well as $10,000.
PARISH ABSOLVED: Ontario Provincial Police Constable Serge Duguay holds a bag of bones at the site near St. Finnan's Cathedral in Alexandria where several fragments were
found by children May 28. More remains, originally buried in a nearby cemetery, were found. No charges will be laid. When she made the macabre discovery, Deanna Bradford
thought she had found dinosaur bones. Details inside.
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THIS WEEK’S TARTAN
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BY SCOTT CARMICHAEL
News Staff
A Glen Nevis senior who recently won the
$1 million grand prize in the Canadian
Cancer Society Daffodil Lottery’s Ontario
division intends to take care of her family
with the windfall.
“I have three children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, so
they’re going to be looked after,” Lorna
MacLeod told The News Monday.
“I don’t need it. I’m 83, and I’ve been quite
comfortable the way I was. I don’t think it’s
going to change me very much. My head’s
not going to get any bigger…I’m hoping,
anyway.”
Mrs. MacLeod explained that she was totally caught off-guard when she received the
news last week that she had been chosen the
winner – from a total of 120,000 ticket-holders across the province – of the Daffodil
Lottery’s largest of five grand prizes.
“You get a call at quarter-to-eight in the
morning (on June 2), and you think something’s wrong. That’s always the first thing
that goes through your mind,” she said. “It
took her (the Cancer Society caller) three
times telling me that I’d won before I finally
caught on that I did win something big,”
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